Tag: YA fiction
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Michele Kwasniewski, author of Falling Star
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I grappled with the idea of calling myself a writer for years; I’m basically a reader who started writing. I have no formal training in story-telling and my grasp of the mechanics of English grammar frustrate and amuse my editors to no end. It wasn’t until I…
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Meet Lotte Jean Elliott, author of The Monsters Club
What inspires you to write? I only started writing a few years ago. Literature has been a part of my life, in a bigger way, since I was about fifteen, but it wasn’t till I got a rather bad illness that, whilst in recovery, I took up writing. It became a huge therapy for me…
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Lily Iona Mackenzie, author of The Ripening
What inspires you to write? Actually, it’s the act of writing itself that inspires me. Once I’m writing, whether it’s poetry or prose, inspiration can easily appear. When did you first consider yourself a writer? When I was twenty-five and sharing a commute with a fellow worker, I amazed myself when the words flew…
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Maricla Pannocchia, author of Letters from Afghanistan
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I don’t think I have really chosen it. I always had an interest, a call, for social causes. As much as I don’t have anything against books that are aimed for entertainment only, as I sometimes read them as well, I feel I…
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Meet Jaylyn Hassan, author of Street Racing Club
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I first considered myself a writer back in the 4th grade going on to the 5th grade. The teacher gave us this assignment where we could write any story we wanted and would actually publish it into a book format. It was my first official Street Racing…
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Fan-Fiction at the Hugo Awards and more…
In China, science fiction enjoys an efflorescence (The Hindu) Ironically, it is science fiction — a genre that is often dismissed as the plaything of nerds, geeks, and social misfits — that has actively imagined the consequences of technological changes. For the adherents of realism, or ‘serious literature’, science fiction is the literary equivalent of…
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Racism in Romance Fiction and more…
In Defence of Young Adult Fiction (The Boar) The problem with being forced to read classics was that it took away all the enjoyment I found in reading. I could no longer read for pleasure and instead found that everything I was reading was either for my personal statement or related to one of my…
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Black Women Comic Book Writers, Robot Writers, and more…
Comic book sheroes: A look at Chicago’s new wealth of black female comic book talent (Chicago Tribune) As more diverse creators enter the comics pool, more black women are coming into shops and inquiring especially about books written and drawn by other black women. Joshua Kelly, manager of Graham Crackers Comics in the Loop, has…
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YA Fiction with LGBTQ Characters, Women Dominating the Man Booker Prize, and more…
Netflix Adapting Novel ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Into New Series (Rolling Stone) In a statement about the project, Garcia noted that their father was “reluctant” to sell the book’s film rights “for decades” “because he believed that it could not be made under the time constraints of a feature film, or that producing it…
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Literature Changing Perceptions of Africa, Creative Writing Snobs, and more…
Let’s silence the creative writing course snobs (The Guardian) Writing, like anything – from athletics to nuclear physics – depends on a basic degree of talent, which can be cultivated through training. So let’s stop pretending that devoting a year or two to studying writing in the company of others is anything other than a…
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